The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 6

Iy % tc g m u lo rc te w hi ¥ nt no pl c3 oL Wi is ur Lol o) ER R LY ER R ) agrRgarzey , lor of his skin. ND ¥ WOT'S THE GOOD OF HAVIN' A TWENTY- ROOM SUMMER \L PALACE IF WE ALL SLEEP K THEM AS PUFFERS | PRIVATE APARTMENTS KIN HOP TO IT! J—| : L5 1{ER PALS THIS féOOYfl AN, WELL SLEEP IN THE NEXT ONE! S v”" Y : A GOSH KNOWS L AINT FUSSY BUT [ SLRE HATE T'SLEEP EIGHT NARBED!Y ]You 60T A SWELL CHANCE, BIGBOY/ You FELLERS SLEEPS UNDER THE BED! SYNOPSIS: Roger Pell, man { of mystery, is thoroughly dis- |c liked by the men of Blackwater and bitterly hated by the par- son, Marling. Veronica Sea- broke's crystal blue cyes num- | bered Tom nofen among I their victims and when she be- comes entangled in the Pell | enigma, Grenofen too, is deep- 1 ly concerned. An expert arch- cologist, Professor Laxton, de- nounces as a fraud the alleged Roman remains found beneath the Newplace Abbey—the treas- ures which attracted Pell to Blackwater. Laxton and Greno- fen hide in the abbey at mid- night and observe a furtive ger in the excavations, Sud- denly they di r that some- body else is watching the un- canny scene. Darkness hides him as he fices but the swish of a skirt betrays his identity —Marling, who always wears a cassock. | \ BACK | o'clock had passed back to Woodcot, | bright and ear] ‘ and greatly Although one before we got Laxton was up Monday morning pleased my moth in the garden and They had become ex ving her roses. llent by the time I strolled down to{ breakfast. “I want to go down this morn- | ing and see the diggings,” Laxton announced 1la about com “Don’t this afternoon. | About 11 o' the idea occur- ock red to me that I would look up| Veronica. She might have some- | thing to say this morning. At| Sandypoint, however, I saw Mrs. Seabroke, who told me Veroni- | ca had returned unexpectedly last, night, being tempted home by the | fine weather. At present she had taken the dog for a run around the point: if I was walking that way I might meet her. ! I walked the potnt on around where the road became a path along | o the low cliffs facing the Channel. | I saw Veronica at some distance and pulled up sharp. She stood | talking to a man. I had just time| to notice that he was too tall to} be either Royle or Somerfield. In a| moment he had seen me, stooped Bind diseppeared. Veronica saw | me and walked not towards me,| but away. : \ I turned back on my tracks. The | hint was so obvious. | It was not Pell. Perhaps Veroni-| ca had not recognized me. Well, that was that . . . Shortly before the appointed hour of Fotherbury's meeting I walked | into the avenue where the fantas-| #c scene had been played the night ! before. Directed by a footman,| 1 went to the beautiful house which the sixteenth century Redslades)| had spread around one of the old| buildings. At the entrance another footman | met me and took me at once along | a vaulted corridor toc the room Fotherbury used as a library. The light here was dim to eyes coming from the sunshine outsice, for the only windows, small, high in the walls and almost at the roof, were filled with painted giass. I made out four persons in the room—Marling, Dr. Eastley, Roy}e; and Comerfield. Marling looked up and nodded.| ‘The two boys said in low tones, “How do, Grenofen?” I sat down opposite Royle. Marling's face absorbed me. He was paler than usual. His black tonsure stood out almost fiercely against the pal- His eyes seemed | to avoid me. He sat motionless on an old black chest on the right of the fireplace, with Eastley on a chair facing him. In other circumstances I.should have enjoyed the beauty. of this re- markable room—the rich shadows in the wagon roof, the gleam of the Jeather bindings of the books ar- jyed in shelves all around the low- er half of the walls. It was all} , quiet, mysterious: the one| ern touch was supplied by a| telephone at the side of the | _But the human interest of the oc- gasion put esthetics out of mind, and almost at once the interest as intensified by the entrance of | pulse “I know nothing,” said Marling, xcept that Mr. Fotherbury wish us to meet here.” The commander made an inartic- | i ulate noise registering disapproval. T suppose,” said he, “Fotherbury found out that the blighter s little game's up. What?" enough, Seabroke see Roger Pell come nto the room We all stared at! %ll. I expect I was the least| urprised of the party. As f his demeanor was remarkable. the footman had closed the behind him, he advanced to de at in t Ih momentary impulse to get up and hold out my hand to him, but I caught a glint of the in- tense gra hostile light w This was a Pell I had not| i known. I a furtive look at the faces of the others. Somerfield’s alone showed any composure. frowned; Marling seemed astonish- cd almost to the point of trem- bling The doctor simply goggled Seabroke seemed ready to burst. They must all have been led by by finding her |Marling to suppose. that Pell had |i: Professor Laxton A quecr Roman antiquities! To this tal of u of seven men in nsciot al strain in qguickly d said: “Good afternoon my dear Pell, here you are! Has anybody see Professor Laxton? You haven't seen him this afte noon, Mr. Grenofen?"” “No,” sald I. No one ied. “These learned men!” Mr. Foth- as he shook his white tcuse me for a few mo- T'll go and inquire again.” In perhaps five minutes Mr. Fotherbury came back. % y strange,” hé said. “ find anybody who's seen him. He stood, the most conspicuous figure in the piace, looking from one to the other, puzzled by our silence and constraint. Marling appeared to be choking with sup- pressed speech. I expected him to burst into an accusation of Pell. But it was Pell himself who broke through the inhibition that had fallen upon us. He rose from his chair with a spring and reached the arched doorway. He shot home two heavy old bolts with two nerve-shattering noises, and turned to face us. “That's enough nonsense!” said he in his clear, loud voice. “Lax- ton will probably not be here. If he comes I will deal with him Meanwhile, there's a job of work to do.” Everyone seemed paralyzed with incredulous amazement and stared at Pell. I felt as though I had been hit between the eyes. Pell was explained! He was a lunatic and perhaps—dangerous. (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) He gentlemen. Ah, else re- I ments. Seven men sit spell-bound through a gripping climax in tomorrow’s chapter. S‘ofit'l| Now 'Leading in New Railroad Trackage MACON, Ga., Aug. 16.—The south outstripped all other sections of the country in 1928 in the matter of a new line railroad trackage, showing a net gain amounting to 90 per cent of the nation's total gain, A, E. Clift, president of the Central of Georgia railroad, told a gather- ing at Macon. 3 Clift explained that this large margin of difference in compara- tive net gains was due to the fact that gains in other sections were largely offset by abandoned track- age figures. He said that more than half the first line track buflt last year was constructed in the south, while only 16 per cent of the total trackage abandoned in 1928 had been located south of the Ma- son Dixon line. With more than one-third the nation’s trackage, southern rail- roads last year spent $200,000,000 He came in noisily - calling out to Marling: at's it all about? Why ain't on the ground?” for improvements to plants and fa- cilities, Clift declared. i LODE MINING CLAIM LOCA- TION NOTICES AT THE FMPIRE eyes and saw in them| Royle | £ prelude to a seance on|: Will Remain in Office i ( 1% 18 f E Hugh S. 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